Russia's Leaders Need to Watch More Movies

When I read this report on Yahoo!, I felt like taking hold of some of these old guys and tell them, "Hey! Fiction lah!"

Unless they've been using the Indiana Jones movies to teach their children history. Hmmmm... too poor to create proper historical movies?

Wonder what would happen if they took the Phua Chu Kang series and taught their businessmen that that was the way Singaporean businessmen looked like?

LOL.

MOSCOW - Members of Russia's Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.

"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist competing in 1957 with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.

It hit Russian screens Thursday.

Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 "did not send terrorists to the States," but launched a satellite, "which evoked the admiration of the whole world."

Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday "it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War."

BBQ Revisited

The BBQ on Sunday really tired me out. I am GETTING OLD!

Oh anyway, we didn't actually find sea slugs.

Rather, they were sea cucumbers. Here's a link to the info. http://www.wildsingapore.com/chekjawa/text/p630.htm

The images of the red sea cucumbers were similar to what we saw. Way cool! And they were spitting out their guts. That's what Shreyas was asking.

Anyway, ladies, I'm still waiting for the photos, so send them to me, quick. So I can post them here. Especially the ones where I was strangling Jiaxiu. Lol. Or rather, letting her smell some underarm odour.

Curry

A good curry is not difficult. After learning to make my own curry by hand, curry powder is out the window. Anyway, I've never been good with making curries using commercially packed powders.

Give me ginger, give me chilli
All the heat come back to me
Pound the onions and the garlic
Mind you don't put in the leek

Turmeric gives the bright yellow hue
Milk from a cow if you mind your heart
Fry it all till fragrance flies
But mind the heat or milk fats part


That's why I make my own curries by hand. And that is a recipe. Old wives tales combined with common sense. And seriously, if your mum ever told you to stay by the curry and stir, for goodness sakes, do it!

High heat and a lax attitude will kill a curry faster than anything else.